Even though demoted from planetary status, Pluto is still arguably one of the most interesting bodies in the solar system, alongside its four moons. Recently, it became even more interesting, when researchers learned that its surface may contain complex organic molecules – the building blocks of life.
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22 December 2011
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A new set of computer simulations has revealed that the solar system may have contained an additional planet when it first developed, an object that was extremely massive by the look of things. The space body must have been ejected a long time ago, the team adds. Certain interpretations of the new model even indicate... |
11 November 2011
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About five years ago, astronomers demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, but the move – while still controversial – did not decrease researchers' interest in the small celestial body. When the NASA New Horizons space probe reaches it in 205, the spacecraft will change our view of the rocky wo... |
24 August 2011
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The newest mission NASA created for exploring the largest planet in our solar system took off successfully yesterday, August 5, at 12:25 pm EDT (1625 GMT). The Juno spacecraft is heading for Jupiter, where it is scheduled to arrive in mis-2016. The probe took off aboard an United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V deliver... |
6 August 2011
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Asteroid impacts helped shape the way the solar system, and indeed our planet, look today, and yet these phenomena are not that well understood. Experts are now moving away from computer models, and are taking studies of such collisions into construction yards.Such a study involved suspending two ball-shaped boulders... |
24 March 2011
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Officials with Virgin Galactic announced recently that the company has just signed an agreement with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) of Colorado, for several seats on the upcoming suborbital flights that the corporation is scheduled to being flying. At this point, Virgin is constructing and testing its own fl... |
28 February 2011
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Officials from NASA's headquarters, in Washington DC, gave the final confirmation to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) misson, whose main objective is to analyze one of the most basic phenomena in the Universe, namely magnetic reconnection. Scheduled for launch in Apr... |
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